ABSTRACT
In dealing with the general nature of Goodness, it has been necessary to refer to the social aspect of life. The creativeness of human life is one of its most important characteristics. But it is in human life that the social aspect is most prominent and most complicated; and, in particular, the values that are pursued in human life are pre-eminently social values. Without reference to a social unity, individual Good would have hardly any meaning. Man is the only being on this planet who can be said to be, in any definite sense, purposeful and creative; and it is in that fact that the chief significance of our social life is to be discovered. Perhaps the most notable statement of the Gospel of Labour is that which is contained in Carlyle's Past and Present; but the labour on which he lays most stress is that of the Poet, the Thinker, Prophet, and the Creative Artist not what he called beaverism.
